Maggie Ziyu Huan

MS Student @ UPenn

Hi, I am a Master's student at the University of Pennsylvania, working in natural language processing. I study how language facilitates reasoning and planning. Currently I am interested in how linguistic representations can move beyond static inference, to shape generalizable agents that act dynamically within situated contexts.

During my research journey, I am super lucky to be guided by my amazing mentors, Prof. Alane Suhr and Prof. Nicholas Tomlin at Berkeley NLP Group; Prof. Mark Yatskar at Penn NLP Group; Prof. Graham Neubig and Dr. Xiang Yue at CMU LTI. Thanks to their continuous support and help, I've been able to develop my research skills gradually, and enjoy the process more and more :)

My original name could be hard to pronounce sometimes. Happy to call me Maggie or Ziyu (IPA: /tsɯˇ. yˋ/) if you like, I react to both of them!

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Selected Publications View All →
Does Math Reasoning Improve General LLM Capabilities? Understanding Transferability of LLM Reasoning
Maggie Huan*, Yuetai Li*, Tuney Zheng*, Xiaoyu Xu, Seungone Kim, Minxin Du, Radha Poovendran, Graham Neubig, Xiang Yue
In Submission, 2025
World Models with Hints of Large Language Models for Goal Achieving
Zeyuan Liu*, Maggie Huan*, Xiyao Wang, Jiafei Lyu, Jian Tao, Xiu Li†, Furong Huang†, Huazhe Xu†
NAACL 2025 Oral